The rest of the Amazon Scam graphics cards finally came!

[@mbntr2363]

Gotta love how nvidia is marketing their GPUs with 8k in mind whilst most people run 1080p AT MOST

[@fnknwr7]

meanwhile I'm running a 768p monitor as my main.

[@goatslayerwp]

Ewww. 1440P for the last 7 years for me.

[@leoncalton9330]

People most commanly play 1080p, but the most people play most the time is 1440

[@TheRegularGamersEE]

I feel like most systems CAN run 1440+ but most gamers play 1080 as most competitive games require high frames so lower res

[@FireFalcon]

I run a 1x1080 monitor for the widescreen experience ;)

[@Doom2pro]

The Scammer: Are all of these cards being bought by the same dude?

[@Raven10241]

why they don't just sell the card as a gtx 560 460 what ever they really are is beyond me then they will work much better sure they won't work with directx 10 11 or 12 but oh well they will atleast run as what they are and not crash from trying to be something that they are not

[@TheGamingTeam101Tgt101]

Raven 4096 cuz they want to scam people idk

[@antreaskonstantinou8585]

The scammer when he sees that he finnaly started selling his graphics cards:😀 The scammer when he realises its the same person and is probably trying to expose him👉💥😵

[@rafachp2]

Wait, it's all GTS 450? -Always has been. (Sorry Dawid)

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

😂

[@NombreOriginal3]

Jokes on you i actually bought an gts 450 Asus

[@CaveyMoth]

I want to hug my two GTS 450s..while lamenting not getting a GTX 460.

[@rustyboomerton2235]

Carlos Martinez Gomez lol no worries he’ll get a refund

[@souljastation5463]

Is this a good strategy to get a gt 450 for free? You order a scam card then amazon/ebay refunds you and you're left with a free 450.

[@sekken4209]

Thank you Dawid for knowing that I have recently suffered a head injury and did not remember what had happened in that video.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

For sure! It happens to me all the time. 😁

[@koreannom]

SLI with these would be pretty interesting

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Awesome! I'll do that soon. 😁

[@koreannom]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff

[@forsaken178]

That would be a fire hazard 😂😂

[@koreannom]

@@forsaken178 one we'll enjoy seeing ;3

[@25566]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff do that

[@Septianernanto7]

Definitely flash them. Also about the cooler... Yea pls at least screw it

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Okay cool. SLI it is.

[@yotoprules9361]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff If you want fake graphics cards with a different GPU: Try to find GTX 1050 2gb that looks like this: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Q1%2BVkaupL._SX425_.jpg They will almost always be the same GPU (I won't spoil what it is, but it's more than twice as good as the gts 450 and still gets driver updates from nvidia) I reflashed one myself, and other than the temp sensor reporting incorrect temperatures, it works well.

[@yotoprules9361]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Such as this: www.wish.com/wishlist/5f446a7de22e0296674a392c/product/5b6d6fb30fb20d13089365d4?source=wishlist_feed&position=3&share=web

[@yotoprules9361]

@Ai that doesn't make sense though because those 2 gpus perform basically the same

[@yotoprules9361]

@Ai 650ti

[@_____alyptic]

Fake SLI? I'm down to see that xP

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

That seems to be the general consensus. I'll get on it.

[@Forfaxify]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff It doesnt have SLI connectors...

[@WSlopeAggie]

@@Forfaxify He already addressed this dumbnut

[@truskawkayt7872]

@@Forfaxify diffrentSLImode

[@HoloScope]

Flash all the graphics card to stock and try using differentsliauto to sli them! github.com/EmberVulpix/DifferentSLIAuto EDIT: also fortnite and many other games anti cheat does not let you run games with test mode enabled for disabling signature enforcement (dse) so if you use DriverSigner from unknowncheats then you dont have to use dse and that way you can play fortnite and other games with anti cheat engines. im not sure if driversigner is detected by anti cheat yet, if it is then the game will not run

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Awesome! Thanks for the info. I'll get into that ASAP.

[@VraerynDaDragon]

4:43 Certain types of GPUs, usually older/unrecognized ones, actually do that pretty often on modern motherboards, so it doesn't *always* mean fake. I have used a genuine Nvidia 660 Ti as a test card where I work, and it has started doing this on newer X570 and Z490 chipsets. We are actually considering retiring it because it just doesn't always play nice with newer chipsets, most notably a lot of the X570.

[@TheCymbalProject]

This is by far the most sardonic channel on KZbin. LOVE IT

[@Vooman]

now "fix" one with the power connector and overclock it until it catches fire

[@OfficialYamiYam]

From what ive seen, you can get them working by installing the drivers included in the install disc. They did something weird with them that allows them to install.

[@rustyboomerton2235]

I didn’t have any recent head injuries, just a few hundred American football concussions in school, some boxing after that in college...switched to judo. Now I’m just a Cyber Ninja. I still remembered though =) Can’t forget a Dawid vid ;)

[@kens.1162]

Subscribed a year ago and I still love your content. Keep it coming man. Buy more weird dubious tech stuff. They crack me up LOL

[@VRavTech]

they're the best content

[@bharatmadhok6773]

How did you comment 5 hours ago

[@pkbattosai]

theres probably just a dude sitting on a thrown made of those graphic cards haha

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Hahaha!! That is a pretty cool image.

[@Mattyrocks1000]

Dawid is gonna be that person at the rate he is collecting these

[@nathanhamman418]

The gts 450 is so common that you can sometimes pick them up as low as $5.

[@conyo985]

RTX 3000 cards just announced. Dawid: "Hey let's look at more scam cards!" LOL!

[@raven4k998]

Dawid is trying to trigger you again run for it!!!!

[@kratos_xdza7208]

Hey Dawid, great content, greetings from SA.

[@TheLegend-tl8lo]

San andreas?

[@ryeguygaming4049]

right from the instructions " just brute force the power connector in" lol, love the quality

[@bartsiebelink2694]

5:53 the thidy 90 😂😂

[@kmed-7044]

The quality of the videos is very good and the montage is also good, you deserve more than million subscribers keep up the good work❤️

[@AnnaDoes]

I’m convinced some guy bought a crate of the old gpu’s and has just been repackaging/designing them. So imaginative but also so dodge lol

[@DodgerX]

Are you real anna?

[@AnnaDoes]

I am real Anna yes 😂

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Step 1: get lot of used gts 450 Step 2: remake the pcb transfer the IC Step 3: flash Step 4:??? Step 5: profit

[@AznTony360]

Eh, I think it’s more like people looking to upgrade so the list the gpu as a legit 450 on wish, eBay or Amazon etc. and this Chinese company goes and buys every single one along with other cheap cards. Buy and flip.

[@ThatKiwiDudeTV]

When you get an ad for wish on this video: Noooo Im watching this to laugh at wish not buy from them!

[@hypurrfpv9483]

That's the first time I've seen anyone that knew what they were doing plug and unplug cards from a motherboard that was still powered on.

[@raven4k998]

it's a gts 450 what's the worst that can happen?

[@Sundayinthelife]

Definitely wanna see the sli video! Love these scam videos

[@nticompass]

Yes! You should re-flash them and try to SLI them. The drivers /may/ be able to SLI without the bridge.

[@ScottieMckinley787]

So the graphics engine in my 3200g is better than most of the graphics cards on Wish?

[@martymcfly88mph35]

Dawid at 2:30 in the video you said "shroud" color when referring to the covering on the graphics card... You forgot to include Shroud's head popping up this time! lol I always find that funny when you do that.

[@TCGView]

IIRC, there are a TON of cyber cafes in China and several years ago, they bought up a massive amount of GTS 450 GPUs to put in the computers so they can also do light gaming. Well, all those GPUs are aging out now and they have a huge bulk of them and nowhere to put them so...they cleaned them up, threw a fake BIOS on them, and sell them to unsuspecting buyers via eBay, Wish, Amazon, etc. I wish I remembered exactly where I saw this. I know it was from a YT video, but I cannot for the life of me remember when or where I saw, or who made it.

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

They will work if you install the drivers on the driver disk since those are tweaked drivers. It’s actually interesting when that happens because sometimes the drivers tell the game the gpu has more vram than it does which causes the game to break

[@RADERFPV]

You know you're in for a treat when they come packed with drivers on a cd-rom. I bet they say "Optimized for Windows XP" on them, ha ha ha.

[@whyers4782]

1:30 Whoa!! It has a flow through cooler! It must be more powerful than the rtx 3090!

[@alexlexo59]

You're that scammer's salary 😅😂

[@HR-wd6cw]

I think the dead giveaway is that the fan assembly is larger than the card (you don't see that on actual, legit copies of cards from major manufacturers like EVGA, GIGABYTE, ASUS, etc) generally have cooling fan assemblies that are the same length of the card--even the cheap ones from major brands). My GTX 970 was huge (about 14 inches, had 3 coolin fans and required 2-8 pin power connectors).

[@freddywestside3763]

I definitely want to see that SLI video. It's going to be hell for you... Take one for the team. Ps- be sure to benchmark 4 of them against the cards they were actually supposed to be.

[@lowen9123]

Loving the fightstar wallpaper!

[@slycordinator]

A while back, I looked on Amazon for some 4-port Intel gigabit cards to use in a diy router. I found two that were the same exact knockoff cards. Both listings were made within a couple days of each other, but had pictures that were from a different angle to make them seem different. In both you could see the embossed name of some random Chinese company. And they had the same chips of every fake card. As well, both listed the seller as the "manufacturer". And if you went to the seller's page itself, they mainly sold cheap jewelry. Reporting the listings as fake did nothing at the time... Edit: And both sellers were listed at different addresses, but were actually the fame building somewhere in California if I remember correctly.

[@SprintKeyz]

You should do a video where you literally return the card, but buy a gts 450 and return that. When the scammer asks: "Why isnt this the GTX 970" or whatever card you bought, just tell them that it's the same gpu. Or just do any video about scamming a scammer (if u want to of course) cuz it would be pretty cool to be able to say "I scammed a scammer"

[@casualuser6859]

"-but something more interesting" -0:37 Me: like a custome moba with an 20 yo cpu with integrated graphics and sold as a 1050???

[@DimaZeru]

I mean, if you need a plug-in placeholder card you can order one and then just ask for a refund. It worked magically on Aliexpress for me. Got like about 50% of items refunded because they were not what the description said. Being a Diamond level buyer on Ali also helped a lot.

[@kintustis]

It's almost certainly a large-scale operation rather than a single person.

[@BlackBearCrypto]

A PCIe x16 extra long extender might help for some of these tests! I have one and it’s sooo versatile

[@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

With the fakes, I find using an older driver version works with them. Source: That GTS 450 Rev.2(750 Ti) I bought a few years back.

[@Dark.Shingo]

Be careful Dawid, I saw another video where one of these fake GPUs actually short circuited the motherboard because it was set up that way, so there are actually scammers that want to fry their costumers.

[@Silythx]

Your videos appear in my recommended and i love them.Just subscribed :)

[@aswa121235]

Probably all you have to do is to use the included modified (fake) drivers and these cards will work just fine like any other gts450.

[@이온-w1c]

Card itself shows how shallow itself. Ah those were days like zalman cooler with copper heat pipes

[@HR-wd6cw]

To your first question, my guess is that they may have been defective units that someone bought up and "rebuilt" and sell as a GTX 970. All the GTX 970's Iive seen have been larger, and require at least 2-6 pin connectors, although mine was a 2-8pin design with 3 fans. Either way, they were big cards (physically), much bigger than that, so the size in relation to the cooler is a dead giveaway.

[@mumblingshovel7584]

those fan cables on the aio are killing me

[@mainxd357]

I love how the white card has NVIDIA painted on the fans.

[@diodrama-24]

Easy way to spot the scam from the listing if you are unsure, especially if they are selling as 1060's etc is that the VGA port has not been on the NVidia cards from a very long time. If it has a VGA port and purports to be a newish card it is very, very likely to be a fake card

[@blackknightdavesgarage6918]

my question is did you report these sellers to amazon? just wondering

[@nticompass]

He said he got his money back on one of them, so I imagine he reported them as a scam when requesting a refund.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yeah, I did and I was actually refunded for both of the cards I showed in this video. 😁

[@nticompass]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff So you're saying this is a good way to get some free GTS 450s?

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@nticompass Hahaha!! I guess it is. 😂

[@razvancisma4154]

lets scam the scammer

[@Theres_No_PlanetB]

My family has a box of about 20 gts 450s for engineering purposes. Was on an robotics team, and they r nice for using a old CPU. They have SLI, lol. My little brother used them from 2013-2015

[@codygladue2024]

Lol I suffered a head injury 00:07 thanks for the recap :)

[@satorudo]

Basically a lot of Internet cafes in China used them. So there’s a ton of them in the market as Internet cafes dump them

[@popefrancisspeedruns9365]

Good guy Dawid, looking out for the silent majority of viewers who have recently had a head injury and cannot remember past videos!

[@Monkeyking35]

In light of Nvidia's recent actions, I wouldn't be surprised if they were the ones behind the fake cards, just to get rid of overproduced stock

[@LLLexen]

Not a bad theory Anythings possible nowadays im with you on this

[@99710]

5:11 Try installing 391.35 drivers or earlier for scam cards

[@BenState]

Some one at PCBWay would have all of these scammers' details for sure.

[@garethhughes4437]

Man I love these videos! I'd love to see them in SLI

[@NJPurling]

Will the BIOS of these cards allow you to re-flash them as GTS 450 and install the right driver? Before you trash them I wondered if you can make them work.

[@TheGodOfBlocks]

GTS 450s were popular in Chinese gaming cafes so there was an absolute abundance of them. What probably happened is some board partner wanted to get rid of a whole ton of backstock and sold bulk dies to a shady company who is now reballing them on to cheap PCBs and reflashing them as higher end GPUs. Pretty basic yet very effective scam

[@ericdeltoro8484]

Hey, at least you got 6 pin power connectors this time. :D

[@Chari_]

dude you got to flash the bios and use sli with them that sounds awesome

[@BigDrewski1000]

I swear these scam sellers must have a massive backlog of fan shells from Gigabyte GTX 750Ti's because they look identical, just painted.

[@munem939]

3:48 Well... Beve Sturke from Namers Gexus is *not* going to like that AIO mounting hahaha

[@rathstar]

Awesome, love the content. I have what I suspect is a GTS420, wouldn't mind using it as a display adapter to test motherboards. Could you make a video (or link me to a good one) on how to flash the bios to the correct one ?

[@Cheesesticks-1]

Okay, but no one has ever used my name in one of these silly "call-out" spots before

[@TARDISver40]

My AIO is like that... I feel ashamed because I don't know why it's wrong.

[@etho86]

I wouldn't even feel comfortable plugging it into my mobo, let alone powering it on. Your more brave than me my friend.

[@ffmgri]

Hey.....MY old GTS 450 ran Bioshock Infinite with over 30fps. That was a nice little card back then^^

[@ardennielsen3761]

You do know, in the BIOS you can select to turn off the on board graphics! but if your card fails, ya will need another card to put into it so it can continue functioning. the "scam cards" work grate for that.

[@ardennielsen3761]

basic display output

[@ardennielsen3761]

but still, not functioning as listed.

[@ardennielsen3761]

@Silvio Balaško ya i guess if that's an option.

[@TheNiteNinja19]

Find one of those four PCI Express slot motherboards and just cram it full of GTS 450s. I think you'll be able to force SLI through API in benchmarking software.

[@greasysteve5671]

time for some Chuck Noris level modding

[@chosensupra9978]

David's next video: Finally meeting up with the seller of the scam graphics cards. 😂😂😂

[@milenrrz]

I can imagine these videos 10 years from now and people getting scammed by getting a 3080 instead...

[@mainxd357]

It is also funny since most of the fake GPUs on these websites seem to lock your screen at 800x600 or some other resolution.

[@Philblox22]

The first card ltt buyed it too

[@ethandeboer5902]

Not gonna lie I was a little shocked to see the same background that I use on my pc on his considering it’s art from a card game

[@LadBooboo]

Other tectubers: Dat 30xx series tho Dawid: ight, let's see some scam GPUs

[@sherbftfy2287]

yeah it's by one dude it's whoever designed the GTS 450

[@Kyo-bd4tw]

Discord notis are the best!

[@CeyIonn]

I love how optimistic he is

[@DART25]

Same

[@f_for_freedom2492]

I'd actually love to see ya re-flash 'em,and try to do some sli crazy-ness with these confused pieces of plastic

[@jodiac]

I recon they are not linked to one dude, but rather to one factory/warehouse where they build them and then third parties sell them scamming people elsewhere.

[@mccrh7737]

I would flash them and use the cards for a retro gaming rig. Windows XP seems to have support ;)

[@OofzyJr]

4 days ago and im now just getting Notified of the video

[@MrJacobjj84]

gts 450 were huge in systems built for office pc s

[@trey5169]

Instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del, try Ctrl+Shift+Esc. This brings up the Task Manager straight away.

[@williampaabreeves]

Considering a 970 is actually only worth about $100 anyway its surprising that they even try to sell something like that as one

[@dnakatomiuk]

The stickers in the white shroud card are so old way back around the 6xxx series card maybe the fx5200 series I think

[@JynxedKoma]

You know it's a scam card when one of the fans is way offset from the heatsink and PCB itself.

[@TronixGuy93]

Did you ever re-flash these and SLI?

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yes I did! The video is called something along the lines of "Janky SLI"

[@stefayen]

Hi Dawid Love the video's dude! But why aren't there ANY modern motherboards with an PCIe slot for an soundcard i hope you can help ty

[@Maxpro180]

Have you try to install the driver from the CD that came in the box?

[@bitelaserkhalif]

It seems that GPU markings are sanded off. I did it to geforce 6200 tc old GPU for lul. Just use sandpaper and do it.

[@ScottySkilz1]

i thought the inlet and outlet for the aio is suppose to be above the pump

[@GirAiDWinters]

Lol at aio bit, a lot of tech KZbinrs probably hate GN Steve now.

[@OcihEvE]

It must be a sad and dreary prison scam or something and a terrible one at that. They would make more money at this if they just went in to business making custom cooler shrouds. The white one looks nice.

[@alyctro8158]

That's a sexy computer case, must've been expensive..